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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
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FSI Stanford Calendar of Events
As part of its educational and outreach mission to encourage thoughtful consideration of international issues and challenges, the Freeman Spogli Institute hosts public events, discussions and lectures on pertinent international issues involving Stanford faculty, as well as prominent outside politicians, officials, and academics.
The FSI Stanford events calendar provides a consolidated listing of events sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute and its centers.
Feb 1, 2012
- Identity Politics in a Muslim-Majority Democracy: Explaining Communal Appeals in Indonesian Election Campaigns, 2009-2011
Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Seminar
Jeremy Menchik, 2011-2012 Shorenstein Fellow, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Audio transcript available 
- Rank Stability in Regional Variation Studies: Is McAllen Really That Bad?
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jay Bhattacharya
Feb 2, 2012
- Opera After Freud
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Conference
Thomas Grey; Brian Hyer; Lawrence Kramer; Paul Robinson; Richard Leppert; Lydia Goehr; Peter Burgard; Jessica Payette; Charles Kronengold; Heather Hadlock; Daniel Albright; David Levin; Mary Ann Smart; Gundula Kreuzer; Ryan Minor; Adrian Daub; Bryan Gilliam; Stephen Hinton
February 2, 2012 - February 3, 2012 - The Arab Spring and Sudan
CDDRL Seminar
John Prendergast, Human rights activist and co-founder, Enough Project
- Islam and Contemporary Europe: A New Generation of Converts to Islam: Frictions of Race and Religion in Germany
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Esra Ozyurek, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC San Diego - The Politics of Critical Infrastructure Protection: Regulation and Deregulation Revisited
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Ryan Ellis; Whitfield Diffie
- Combating Cyber Insecurity Around the Globe
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, US State Department
Feb 3, 2012
Feb 6, 2012
- Summer 2012 Research Abroad Undergraduate Internships in China and Guatemala Orientation
Special Event - National Oil Companies and the World Oil Market: Should We Be Worried?
PESD Seminar
Mark C. Thurber
- Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa: Evidence from Policy and Field Experiments
CDDRL Special Seminar
Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
flyer available
Feb 7, 2012
- Information Session - CDDRL Senior Honors Program
CDDRL Special Event flyer available - Assignment: China -- The Week that Changed the World
Shorenstein APARC Seminar
Mike Chinoy; Michael H. Armacost
- Human Trafficking: The Current Anti-trafficking Model and Networks of Service
CDDRL, PHR Seminar Series
Cindy Liou; Helen Stacy
Feb 8, 2012
- European and Global Economic Crisis Series: "Saving the Euro with Minimal Changes to the European Architecture"
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Associate Professor of Finance and the Yamaichi Faculty Fellow, New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business Audio transcript available presentation available
- Quality and quantity: What do treatment programs mean for the future of tuberculosis in India?
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Sze-chuan Suen; Eran Bendavid; Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert - Population Exchanges in the Modern Era
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Round Table
Matthew Frank; Catherine Gousseff - Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Public Service and Citizenship by former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
Lecture
Russ Feingold, Former U.S. Senator and the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor, Haas Center for Public Service
Feb 9, 2012
- India's Multiple Revolutions
CDDRL Research Seminar
Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
- Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Jacob Shapiro; David Blum
- Strategies and Support for a Global Open Internet
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Kathleen Reen, VP Asia and Internet Initiatives, Internews
- The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia
Stanford Ethics and War Series
Priya Satia, assistant professor of history, Stanford
Feb 10, 2012
Feb 13, 2012
- The Growth of Private Hospitals and Public-Private Partnerships in Asia: Good or Bad for Health?
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar
Dominic Montagu, University of California, San Francisco Audio transcript available presentation available - The South African Denuclearization Exemplar: Insights for Nonproliferation
CISAC Science Seminar
Frank Pabian, Visiting Scholar, CISAC - The Political Economy of Syria and the Uprising
CDDRL, ARD Special Event
Bassam Haddad
Feb 14, 2012
Feb 15, 2012
- Grant Writing - An Overview
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Mark A. Hlatky - Migration and State Formation in the Aftermath of the Ottoman Empire
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Reşat Kasaba, Professor of International Studies and Director of Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington - Screening of RFK in the Land of Apartheid
CDDRL Special Event
Larry Shore; James Campbell; Larry Diamond flyer available - "The Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi" and post-film discussion
Stanford Ethics and War Series
Ian Olds; Robert Crews
Feb 16, 2012
- Vote Buying and Democracy in Africa: Lessons from Experiments in Kenya
CDDRL Research Seminar
Eric Kramon, Pre-doctoral Fellow 2011-2012, CDDRL
- The Limits of Sovereignty: How the United States Has Policed Its Border with Mexico Since 1993
CISAC Social Science Seminar
C.J. Álvarez; Edith Sheffer
- An Evening With the Knights
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Knight Fellows, Stanford University
Feb 21, 2012
- Confucian Humanism as World Governance
CDDRL, Governance Project Special Event
Tu Weiming; Francis Fukuyama Audio transcript available flyer available
- Anti-trafficking Approaches: A Description of What Works and What Doesn’t
CDDRL, PHR Seminar Series
Jean Enriquez; Helen Stacy
- Sebastian Junger in conversation with Tobias Wolff
Stanford Ethics and War Series
Sebastian Junger; Tobias Wolff
Feb 22, 2012
- Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials and the Ethics of Writing (France, 19th-21st Centuries)
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Lecture
Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS, EHESS, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique Audio transcript available - Reference-Based Pricing: Past, Present, and Future
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jennifer Schneider; Dena M. Bravata; Hau Liu - "Restrepo" and post-film discussion
Stanford Ethics and War Series
Sebastian Junger; Kristine Samuelson
Feb 23, 2012
- The Commitment to Public Services in India
CDDRL Research Seminar
Vivek Srinivasen, Program Manager, Program on Liberation Technology, Stanford University
- Do Different Health Insurance Plans in China Create Disparities in Health Care Utilization and Expenditures?
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP Seminar
Hai Fang, Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, University of Colorado Denver Audio transcript available 
- The Renunciation of Nuclear Weapons as a Historical Possibility
CISAC Social Science Seminar
Benoît Pelopidas; John Downer - Tools of Change: How the Internet Helped Shape the Arab Spring
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series
Jillian York, Author and Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Video available 
Feb 24, 2012
Feb 27, 2012
- One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Conference Video available 11 presentations available
- "Trans-spectrum Global Security: Foundations"
CISAC Science Seminar
Robert Glass, William J. Perry Fellow, CISAC - Animal Law: The Newest Social Justice Movement
CDDRL, PHR Workshop
Bruce Wagman; Kris Weller flyer available
Feb 28, 2012
- The Taiwan Presidential Election: Implications for Cross-Strait Relations and U.S. Policy
CDDRL Seminar
Alan Romberg, Distinguished Fellow, the Stimson Center
- Local Law Enforcement Human Trafficking Task Forces
CDDRL, PHR Seminar Series
Lt. John Vanek; Sgt. Kyle Oki; Chief Deputy Antonio Parra
Feb 29, 2012
- Japan's Reflection on a Rising China: The Domestic Politics of Japan's China Policy
Shorenstein APARC, Japan Studies Program Seminar
Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Audio transcript available 
- Worldwide Inflation and International Monetary Reform: Exchange Rates or Interest Rates?
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Ronald I. McKinnon, William D. Eberle Professor of International Economics (Emeritus), Stanford University Audio transcript available paper available
- Early Investments in Maternal Education as a Driver for Eliminating Female Circumcision: Evidence from Egypt
CHP/PCOR Research in Progress Seminar
Jenny Liu; Sepideh Modrek, PhD - "In My Lifetime" and post-film discussion with the director
CISAC Special Event
Robert Frye, Director, "In My Lifetime" - Interrupted Lives Iran Exhibit
CDDRL Special Event
Larry Diamond; Roya Boroumand
flyer available - An Evening with Claude Lanzmann
The Europe Center Special Event
Charles Lanzmann, Film director
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